Jaeger-bomb!

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2014)

In the near future, the Earth comes under attack from gigantic creatures that emerge from an inter-dimensional gateway in the Pacific seabed; the world's nations put aside their differences to fight back, developing massive robot warriors (called Jaegers) piloted by a pair of humans with a shared consciousness.
With Pacific Rim, the battle is well and truly on. I'm not talking about the battle between robots and monsters around which the film revolves, but rather the battle between Guillermo Del Toro and Michael Bay to see who can make the most expensive, most tedious, most special effects driven piece of mainstream blockbuster drivel humanly possible.
In an attempt to go one better than Bay's Transformers series, Del Toro's Pacific Rim not only features massive mechanoids causing untold damage but also throws in enormous monsters (known as Kaiju) for good measure. The result is a charmless mess of bland performances, difficult to follow, state-of-the-art digital mayhem, and nonsensical plot developments designed to please those viewers for whom logic, narrative cohesion and convincing acting are of little importance just as long as stuff gets destroyed on a massive scale.
Transformers 4 and Pacific Rim 2 will no doubt up the ante even further—and probably prove all the more terrible for it.